Checklist

The National Checklist of Taiwan

Version 1.7 published by Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF) on 05 March 2021 Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF)
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Download the latest version of this resource data as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) or the resource metadata as EML or RTF:

Data as a DwC-A file download 60,833 records in English (2 MB)  - Update frequency: biannually
Metadata as an EML file download in English (7 KB)
Metadata as an RTF file download in English (6 KB)

Description

“The National Checklist of Taiwan” is provided and maintained by TaiCoL (Catalogue of Life in Taiwan, https://taicol.tw). The database TaiCoL, formly named TaiBNET, was established in 2003, is in charge of collecting species names found in Taiwan. Now, there have been more than 60 thousand of species curated in TaiCoL, and will be increasing through the discovering and studying by local experts and international cooperation. TaiCoL is one of the services supported by TaiBIF (Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility, national node of GBIF in Taiwan, http://taibif.tw) and funded by Taiwanese government.

Data Records

The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 60,833 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Taxon (core)
60833
VernacularName 
27870
Description 
3516

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Please be aware, this is an old version of the dataset.  Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Chung KF, Shao KT (2021): The National Checklist of Taiwan. v1.7. Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF). Dataset/Checklist. https://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=taibnet_com_all&v=1.7

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 1ec61203-14fa-4fbd-8ee5-a4a80257b45a.  Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility (TaiBIF) publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility.

Keywords

Checklist; Species; Catalogue of Life in Taiwan; TaiCoL

Contacts

Jason Mai
  • Originator
Assistant (2011–2019)
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
115 Taipei
TAIWAN
TW
+886 2 27872220 28
Kwang-Tsao Shao
  • Point Of Contact
Research Fellow
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
115 Taipei
TAIWAN
TW
+886 932152991
Kuo-Fang Chung
  • Point Of Contact
Associate Research Fellow
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
115 Taipei
TAIWAN
TW
Chihjen Ko
  • Originator
Jack Lin
  • Programmer
Software Engineer
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
115 Taipei
TW
+886 2 27899161
Sz-Yi Tsai
  • Metadata Provider
Database Administrator
Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica
128 Sec 2, Academia Rd., Nangang Dist.
115 Taipei
TAIWAN
TW
+886 2 27872220 28

Geographic Coverage

Taiwan island and adjacent islets.

Bounding Coordinates South West [20.77, 117.97], North East [26.77, 124.08]

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 1ec61203-14fa-4fbd-8ee5-a4a80257b45a
https://ipt.taibif.tw/resource?r=taibnet_com_all